Capacity Ledger

Your July Electrodes Just Became Dutiable

Commerce found critical circumstances in both large diameter graphite electrode cases, so suspension of liquidation runs back to July 2 and the cash deposit is either 95.61 percent or 1.15 percent depending on who answered the questionnaire. Also on the file: Westlake takes 165,000 tonnes of PVC out of Cologne, Chemours backs a twenty-year refrigerant runway, EPA fixes two wrong words that sat in your Title V emergency defense for 120 days, and California's register moves for the first time since the 23rd.


If you took delivery of large diameter graphite electrodes any time since the start of July, go pull those entry summaries before you read the rest of this.

Commerce signed two preliminary determinations on September 22, put them on public inspection yesterday, and they run in this morning's Federal Register. Both carry an affirmative finding of critical circumstances.

That single word is what reaches backwards.

"Which entries that already cleared are still open, and what does the importer of record owe on them?"

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